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Tag: Dmitriy Shakhmatov Designs

Dmitriy joined the team in early 2015. He is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design and has been a freelance designer in Transportation, Entertainment and Industrial design fields. His work can be seen on TV, in the air and the sea, and in some mansions around LA. Before joining the Hot Wheels team, he was a co-founder in an electric car startup. Outside of work he juggles multiple roles: a husband, a father, a furniture designer and a mechanic for his vintage 911.
His favorite Hot Wheels projects include: 2016 SDCC X-wing Carship, 2015 SDCC Batman vs Superman Twin Mill, 2017 Line of the Star Wars Carships, 2017 Aristo Rat

With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) opening last Friday, people across all walks of life are undoubtedly lining up to see yet another blockbuster from the Star Wars movie franchise — a franchise so popular that we are now viewing entire movies about tangential story lines. Great for […]

Fresh off the pegs is the brand-new, Hot Wheels Aristo Rat. Clearly a play on the word aristocrat, which is a term for “someone from the ruling class”, it can be implied that this racer rules its class on the local dirt track. But that is not the […]

Fresh off the 30th Annual Hot Wheels Collectors Convention in Los Angeles, we take a look at one of the many Hot Wheels cars that I actually picked up at the show. All my area Walmarts got in the Star Wars Planets dump bins so I didn’t see the […]

The #Hot Wheels Characters cars are, by far, Hot Wheels largest expansion to the brand in a long time and they have been bringing in a slew of pop culture collectors and kids. While some traditional collectors are still seeing them as an eye sore as the pegs are […]

Just about every year for the last decade, Hot Wheels has made their presence known at the grandaddy of all comic cons, the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC). This year, they showed up with all kinds of #Pop Culture and #Hot Wheels Characters releases but one of their […]

On a day full of Door-Busters, we bring you a HULK-BUSTER…the #Hulkbuster Iron Man that is. Yesterday we gave thanks to the Iron Man casting which paved the way for this colossal beast. As one of the largest Hot Wheels castings out there, the Hulkbuster Iron Man is […]

The Cruise Bruiser is one of those Hot Wheels castings that instantly takes you back to your childhood. Playing the role of Captain Destructo as a child, many of my Hot Wheels from the 1980s did not survive as they were “well-loved”–and by well-loved, I mean crashed, burned […]